---
version: alpha
name: Locomotive
description: Light design system extracted from locomotive.ca (DOM-true values, Emblematic extractor 0.2.0, 2026-11-12).
colors:
  background: "#FFFFFF"
  on-surface: "#000000"
typography:
  display-lg:
    fontFamily: Locomotive New
    fontSize: 70px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.1
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: Helvetica Now Display
    fontSize: 26px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.2
  label-md:
    fontFamily: Helvetica Now Display
    fontSize: 0px
    fontWeight: 400
rounded: {}
spacing:
  xxs: 4px
  xs: 5px
  sm: 7px
  md: 8px
  lg: 10px
  xl: 11px
  2xl: 20px
  3xl: 30px
  4xl: 40px
  5xl: 50px
  6xl: 150px
  7xl: 160px
  container: 1360px
components:
  button-secondary:
    textColor: "{colors.on-surface}"
    rounded: 0px
    padding: 10px
    height: 48px
    typography: "{typography.label-md}"
omitted:
  - section: rounded
    reason: no rounded corners on painted elements
---

# Locomotive

> Extracted from [https://locomotive.ca/en](https://locomotive.ca/en) on 2026-11-12 by Emblematic. Every value below was read from the rendered DOM (computed styles, `document.fonts`, and the fonts Chrome actually used to paint text), not estimated from pixels. When the YAML front matter and this prose disagree, the YAML wins. Copy values from this file exactly; don't transcribe them from memory. Don't copy logos, imagery, illustrations or marketing copy.

## Overview

Locomotive uses a light canvas (#FFFFFF) with a monochrome palette. Type is set in **Locomotive New** (display + body), **Helvetica Now Display** (ui), with ?px body text. Layout: 1360px container, none-detected navigation, 4 sections. Built with lenis, google-tag-manager, cloudflare.

## Colors

Area-weighted from painted backgrounds, text and borders on the 1440px light capture. Roles are inferred from usage (largest background, most text, interactive fills). Every hex is an exact computed value; a role marked *unverified* is a best guess that has not passed review, so its canonical token (e.g. `primary`) is left out of the front matter.

| Token | Hex | OKLCH | Role | Share of paint | CSS variable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `background` | `#FFFFFF` | 1 0 0 | bg | 75.1% | `--cc-bg` |
| `on-surface` | `#000000` | 0 0 0 | text | 24.9% | `--color` |

Contrast: text on background 21:1.

The site does not change under `prefers-color-scheme: dark`.

## Typography

| Family | Role | Weights | Share of text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **Locomotive New** (CSS: `LocomotiveNew`) | display, body | 400 | 70.1% | webfont |
| **Helvetica Now Display** (CSS: `HelveticaNowDisplay`) | ui | 400 | 29.9% | webfont |

Scale (px): 0, 26, 70, 110.  Body ?px at line-height normal; display 70px with tracking 0em. Headings are sentence case. On a 390px viewport the body is 18px and display 36px.

## Layout

Spacing has no reliable single base unit; the most used steps are 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 20, 30, 40, 50, 150, 160px. Sections open with about 150px of space before their first line of text. Content sits in a 1360px container on a 12-column grid. Text density 0.187 (text area / page area).

Section order (desktop). Kinds below the review threshold are shown as *section*:

1. **hero** — “Locomotive® Digital-first Design Agency” (2809px, bg #FFFFFF)
2. **section** (1084px, bg #FFFFFF)
3. **section** — “(13) Extras” (1881px, bg #FFFFFF)
4. **footer** — “External” (823px, bg #FFFFFF)

## Shapes

Dominant corner radius 0px; radii in use: none. Borders: regular (2px).

## Components

- **button-secondary**: textColor `#000000`, rounded `0px`, padding `10px 0px`, height `48px`, fontFamily `Helvetica Now Display`, fontSize `26px`, fontWeight `400`, border `2px solid #000000` (e.g. “The dynasty”)

## Do's and Don'ts

- Do keep the palette monochrome; there is no chromatic brand accent on the page.
- Do set body copy in Locomotive New at ?px.
- Don't introduce font weights beyond 400.
- Don't add drop shadows; depth comes from tone and borders.
- Do keep corners at 0px for most controls.
- Don't copy this site's logos, illustrations, photography or copy; use the system, not the brand assets.

## Provenance

Spec v2, extractor 0.2.0. Render quality: **ok**. Vision pass: not run. Fields below confidence 0.7 are hedged or left out above: `components`, `layout.columns`, `layout.hero`, `layout.section_count`, `sections[].kind`, `space.base`, `space.section_padding_px`, `type.ratio`. Full per-field provenance is in `spec.json`.